H. Ekkehard Wolff

A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic

Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study into the deep linguistic history of Central Chadic languages, this book applies refined comparative methodology to unpack the principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse phonological evolution. It is essential reading for researchers in African and Afroasiatic languages, historical linguistics and linguistic typology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009010672
• ISBN-10: 1009010670
• Artikelnr.: 72488995

Autorenporträt

H. Ekkehard Wolff is Professor and Chair emeritus (African linguistics) at Leipzig University. He has more than 170 publications to his credit (incl. 30 books) on descriptive, typological, comparative, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics of African languages. He is Editor of The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics (2019) and of A History of African Linguistics (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Languages and language variants used for reconstruction as listed in the database
Abbreviations and symbols
1. Introduction
2. Methodological Preliminarie
3. Proto-Central chadic diachronic phonology and morphophonology: Inventories and principles
4. Diachronic processes in central chadic language evolution
5. Central chadic languages and the neogrammarian hypothesis
6. Full lexical reconstructions
References
Index.